The Holy Trinity New Golutvin convent is situated on the bank of the Moscow river at the centre of an ancient Kremlin in Kolomna.

Since 1350 to 1799 on the territory of the convent there was the residence of archbishops and bishops who governed the Kolomna eparchy.

The Kolomna eparchy was established prior to 1350, after the Mongol invasion to Russia. The beginning of it concerns the time of Ivan Danilovich Kalita’s reign (1328-1340), and even Simeon Gordy (The Proud)’s times (1340-1353). It possessed 10 monasteries and 931 churches.

In 1655 Macarius, Patriarch of Antioch stayed for some time in Kolomna. From the letter of his Syrian secretary Paul Aleppsky we learn how the Bishop’s House looked in the XVII century.

It is known, that “it was very great and enclosed with a wooden wall; cells, or, more truly, Bishop’s Palace was built from excellent stone and wood”. He admired a long wooden gallery that was at the big height from the ground, so that the bishop could pass along it from southern doors of the church to cells. He also admired masterful work of Russian carpenters who had constructed such warm winter apartments: “they are made of dressed, strong rallied, wonderful wood and have dense fitted and carefully blended doors, upholstered with felt and leather so no whiff of breeze can penetrate inside”.

The bishop’s residence especially changed in the late XVII century at Archbishop of Kolomna and Kashira Nikita. He constructed all the main buildings of the complex existing nowadays: the Bishop’s House, the building of the Class Department and the cross-type church of the Holy Trinity.

Even in 1728 in Kolomna (according to the rules of 1721) the basis of the theological seminary was laid. Diocesan Cyprian completely established it on the territory of the bishop’s residence in 1739. The students were children of local secular clergy. The best pupils were sometimes sent in the Moscow seminary, and the Kolomna diocesan Gabriel (Kremenetsky) obliged them to teach in their native seminary after the graduation from the Moscow one. Among pupils of the Kolomna seminary it is necessary to note the great man of faith St. Philaret Drozdov, Metropolitan of Moscow, and N.Gilyarov-Platonov, the publicist of 1870^ths.

In 1799 the decree of Emperor Paul ordered the Bishop of Kolomna who governed churches in Tula, Moscow and Ryazan provinces, to govern only the churches in the Tula province. The Kolomna eparchy was abolished, and the bishop moved to Tula. However, an ancient bishop’s house still remained in Kolomna, empty and without any maintenance. Platon, Metropolitan of Moscow dared to transfer here a part of the brethren from The Epiphany monastery that was situated in a suburb of Kolomna in 1800. Since then the monastery established in the Kremlin began to be called New Golutvin, and a suburban monastery – Old Golutvin.

As in the newly formed monastery the main church was in honour of the Holy Trinity the monastery started to be called the Holy Trinity New Golutvin monastery.

The fact, that it was appropriated II class, which allowed up to 17 people to live in the monastery, testifies to a status of a regular monastery, and all priors, since the first - Varlaam, possessed a high rank of archimandrite. Both cathedral churches – of the Assumption and of the Tikhvin icon of the Holy Mother of God, were attributed to the monastery.

Considerable building works were made at archimandrite Arseny (Koziorov) - a brick church in the name of St. Sergius of Radonezh (nowadays the Intercession (the Protecting Veil of the Holy Mother of God) church) was attached to the northern end face of the Bishop’s House. The northern gate and the northwest tower of the fencing with the entrance to the church from the Cathedral Square may have also been constructed then. In 1825 archimandrite Arseny erects the 55-meter bell tower that became second as to the height in Kolomna. The biggest bell on it weighed 259 poods 32 pounds. In 1871, with a blessing of St. Prelate Innocent (Veniaminov), Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, the monastery was transformed from regular in common living. At archimandrite Sergius (Sveshnikov) who ruled the monastery from 1871 to 1883, the amount of the brethren increased up to 50 people.